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Analysis: x86 Vs PPC

Gentu writes "Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) wrote a long and detailed article, comparing the PPC and the x86 architectures on a number of levels: performance, Vector processing and Power Consumption differences, architectural differences, RISC Vs CISC and more. The article is up-to-date and so it takes the G5 into account too."

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  1. PPC comes out on top! by PhysicsGenius · · Score: -1, Troll
    This is really surprising to me, because I've been a big PC guy for a long time, based on my perception that Macs were slow and expensive. These benchmarks provide some hard numbers that will really open some eyes, I'll wager, even from a biased source like this one.

    One question it raises in my mind, though, is why Apple started their OSX project in the first place? UNIX technology was created for the x86 architecture, how is OSX going to be able to compete on what is essentially a foreign platform?

  2. HELP ME SLASHDOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    Twat

    1. Re:HELP ME SLASHDOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    2. Re:HELP ME SLASHDOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. Eugenia = Gentu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And the editors still accept articles from her fat nasty ass.

    Fuck osnews, fuck Slashdot.

    1. Re:Eugenia = Gentu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. I can post and no one else can by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When I think of dirty old men, I think of Ike Thomas and when I think about Ike I get a hard-on that won't quit.

    Sixty years ago, I worked in what was once my Grandfather's Greenhouses. Gramps had died a year earlier and Grandma, now in her seventies had been forced to sell to the competition. I got a job with the new owners and mostly worked the range by myself. That summer, they hired a man to help me get the benches ready for the fall planting.

    Ike always looked like he was three days from a shave and his whiskers were dirty white, shaded by the brim of his battered felt fedora.

    He did not chew tobacco but the corners of his mouth turned down in a way that, at any moment, I expected a trickle of thin, brown juice to creep down his chin. His bushy, brown eyebrows shaded pale, gray eyes.

    The old-timer extended his hand, lifted his leg like a dog about to mark a bush and let go the loudest fart I ever heard. The old fellow then winked at me, "Ike Thomas is the name and playing pecker's my game."

    I thought he said, "Checkers." I was nineteen, green as grass. I said, "I was never much good at that game."

    "Now me," said Ike, "I just love jumping men . . ."

    "I'll bet you do."

    ". . . and grabbing on to their peckers," said Ike.

    "I though we were talking about . . ."

    "You like jumping old men's peckers?"

    I shook my head.

    "I reckon we'll have to remedy that." Ike lifted his right leg and let go another tremendous fart. "He said, "We best be getting to work."

    That summer of 1941 was a more innocent time. I learned most of the sex I knew from those little eight pager cartoon booklets of comic-page characters going at it. Young men read them in the privacy of an outside john, played with themselves, by themselves and didn't brag about it. Sometimes, we got off with a trusted friend and helped each other out.

    Under the greenhouse glass, the temperature some times climbed over the hundred degree mark. I had worked stripped to the waist since April and was as brown as a berry. On only his second day on the job and in the middle of August, Ike wore old fashioned overalls. Those and socks in his high-top work shoes was every stitch he wore. When he bent forward, the bib front billowed out and I could see the white curly hairs on his chest and belly.

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    He winked. "Of course the taste of a hard cock ain't to be sneezed at neither. Now you answer me, yes or no. Does a man's cock taste salty or not?"

    "I never . . ."

    "Well, old Ike's willing to let you find out."

    "No way."

    "Just teasing," said Ike. "But don't give me no sass or I'll show you my ass." He winked. "Might show it to you anyway, if you was to ask."

    "Why would I do that?"

    "Curiosity, maybe. I'm guessing you never had a good piece of man ass."

    "I'm no queer."

    "Now don't be getting judgmental. Enjoying what's at hand ain't being queer. It's taking pleasure where you find it with anybody willing." Ike slipped a hand into the side slit of his overalls and I could tell he was fondling and straightening out his cock. "Now I admit I got me a hole that satisfied a few guys."

    I swallowed, hard.

    Ike winked. "Care to be asshole buddies?"

    ***

    We worked steadily until noon. Ike drew a worn pocket watch from the bib pocket of his loose overalls and croaked, "Bean time. But first its time to reel out our limber hoses and make with the golden arches before lunch."

    I followed Ike to the end of the greenhouse where he stopped at the outside wall of the potting shed. He opened his fly, fished inside, and finger-hooked a soft white penis with a pouting for

  5. I'm just wondering... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...why someone doesn't do an analysis of Jennifer Connolly's tits instead? Complete with photos and everything!

  6. Al Gore invented the Internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why did Al Gore invent Unix in the first place?

  7. Re:Truly suprising colnclusion, OR NOT! by Sentry21 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) says that the PPC is better than x86.

    What an unbiased opinion. Maybe we should really hear the other side too. I like the article for the wealth of info, and we all know the shortcomings of the x86 platform, but the conclusion seems to be biased.


    While I of course agree that the result isn't surprising, I think people are getting the cause-effect thing backwards. I don't think he found that PPC is better because he uses it, I think he uses it because he found it better.

    Of course, I could be biased...

    --Dan